It is not a good thing for universities to have satellite campuses competing with each other. That’s public money given over to campus construction instead of creating faculty positions. Over half of courses at Cdn universities are taught by part-timers. Almost none of them were in 1990. Spare money should go toward fixing that. If HEC wants to offer a few courses downtown, I can’t see why HEC can’t rent rooms from the Molson School at Concordia. have heard they have trouble filling it with their own courses. Can one hand never talk to the other? After the unpunished Ilot Voyageur fiasco, UQAM must stay on a very short leash for a very long time. Money pleas from them are instantly enraging.

Well, UdeQ has a policy that also discriminates against anglophones, allophones and even foreign students from non-Francophone countries by requiring professors to mark errors in French rather than simply the content of coursework. There is a program that I want to take at UQAM but won’t because simple spelling errors would affect my marks, rather than my actual understanding of the material.

But agree with Jack, they mishandled their money and want everyone else to pay for it.

AFAIK, Lise Bissonnette wasn’t the one in charge when the Ilot fiasco happened, I think it was Roch Denis. It doesn’t absolve UQAM, but Lise Bissonnette still has a point about funding.
To JaneyB’s point, it makes no sense that universities prefer to spend money on brick and mortar instead of the pursuit of academic excellence.
Also, renting rooms between universities is actually a common practice. For exemple, Laval University has a “satellite” campus in Montreal (really, just a floor in an office building). When the classrooms are empty, they are rented by McGill. On certain days, there are more McGill students than Laval in that campus.